SCIENTIFIC TOY AIDS ADVERTISING STUNT (Jul, 1931)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1931
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1931
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SCIENTIFIC TOY AIDS ADVERTISING STUNT
A plaything of high school science classes, the “Newton color disk,” inspired a Beaumont, Texas, man to invent a new advertising device. Thousands of color combinations appear and vanish on a whirling, motor-driven disk, across which moves an endless belt spotted with colors. At intervals an advertisement, a package of cigarettes, a picture of a girl, or words appears in a hole at the disk’s center.
Benham’s top.
I painted half of the takeup reel of my reel to reel recorder
black and when rewinding I did perceive a royal blue.
Nice animation:
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_benham/index.html
Comment by jayessell — June 1, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Many years ago there was one of these in Disneyland. You could vary the speed and see the colors.
Comment by Slim — June 2, 2008 @ 9:33 am